Le Colonel Neville s’habille Tojours Pour le Diner. Semper Fi. Thomas Sowell: "There are three questions that I think would destroy most of the arguments on the left. The first is compared to what? The second is at what cost and the third is what hard evidence do you have?” Live free or die or both. Satirical empirical conservative. No, really.

Thursday, 9 April 2009

The true history of the GOP really is that of a Grand Old Party. Time to be grand again.

Michael Zak in the lap of the conservative Gods.

Martin Luther King was a Republican as was Abraham Lincoln, though ya wouldn't know it...The dominant left MSM and education system have manipulated history outrageously and without effectively being held to account for decades and decades.

Chuck marched with Sidney Poitier on Selma. Now the filthy paradigm of the MSM, celebrity and so on, try another fraudulent gambit and in relative comfort fifty years too late. As Chuck says, it's now "fashionable" and not dangerous at all to either your career and more, which it was. And it's true as Chuck said: "JFK couldn't get nominated to the Democratic Party today".

A left liberal Democrat can betray anything and anyone and do.

The Democrats founded the KKK to well, stop blacks freed by the Republicans from being gee, free. Democrats disarmed them, instigated Jim Crow, stopped all attempts at civil rights, until the 1960’s made it expedient to support them, well almost. Instead Democrat social engineering has destroyed whole sections of black society with the lies of welfare, junk Marxist product sodden education and grievance politics. But it sure does keep a permanently mired and thus handy Democrat voting base, eh?

Michael Zak is the author Back To Basics For The Republican Party sent me these great historical facts. Mike reminds conservatives that Republicans can be damn proud of their history, if they research the true one and not the dominant meme of oh I don't know...left liberal Democrat bullshit.

“On this day in 1866, the Republican-majority 39th Congress overrode a veto by the Democrat president, Andrew Johnson, to enact the 1866 Civil Rights Act. Every Democrat in Congress voted against it.

The purpose of the 1866 Civil Rights Act was to defend African-Americans from their Democrat oppressors in the post-Civil War South. There, Democrats had enacted black codes to impose near-slavery on African-Americans who had just been emancipated by the Republican Party's 13th Amendment.

Senator Lyman Trumbull (R-IL) wrote the 1866 Civil Rights Act, which conferred U.S. citizenship on former slaves and other African-Americans. The law guaranteed African-Americans "full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property, as is enjoyed by white citizens." Republicans thereby granted African-Americans the right to own property, engage in business, sign contracts and file lawsuits.

This was the first time that Congress overrode a veto of a significant bill. Also, the 1866 Civil Rights Act contradicted the notorious Dred Scott decision, in which the seven Democrat Justices on the Supreme Court had decreed that black people did not have constitutional rights. To prevent Democrats from someday repealing the Act, Republicans later enshrined its provisions as Article I of the 14th Amendment.

Sadly, Democrats defied the 1866 Civil Rights Act and other Republican reforms. Democrat oppression of African-Americans would not be overcome until the 1960's civil rights movement.

Republicans today would benefit tremendously from appreciating the heritage of our Grand Old Party.

Michael Zak is a popular speaker to Republican organizations around the country. He is the author of Back to Basics for the Republican Party, the acclaimed history of the GOP from the Republican point of view. Each day, his Grand Old Partisan blog celebrates 155 years of Republican heroes and heroics. See www.RepublicanBasics.com for more information.

“This is the history you do not get in text books written by for and about Democrats. When I grew up we were taught that the Republicans in the Senate and House in the 1860s and 1870s that accomplished the freeing of the slaves and the passage of the 13th, 14th and 15 amendments that outlawed slavery, applied the bill of rights to the states and guaranteed the right to vote to the freed slaves were "radical" Republicans. I guess that made the Democrats of that era, who passed the Jim Crow laws, that formulated separate and unequal, that disenfranchised and disarmed the freed blacks so that they could be subjugated and lynched, mainstream.

Michael Zak tells the true story of couragious Republicans who valued integrity over expediancy, and who placed their lives and safety at risk for a noble goal. He and his book are to be commended for telling us the story that mainstream academia would rather just ignore.”

"After reading the first few pages of this book, I began to get pretty angry. All of my life I have voted Democrat and this book really chilled me to the bone. I personally feel totally duped. Did you know that every single African-American congressman before 1934 was a Republican? When I heard about the violence perpetrated by Democrats, their invention of the KKK, the "Southern Manifesto" that Southern Democrats in the late 1950s tried to use so that they could argue that Brown versus Board of Education (which forced racial integration into public schools in the South), and the white Democrats lynch mobs that killed hundreds of blacks in places like Colfax Louisiana, it just made me sick to my stomach.

Top it off with Strom Thurmond (Democrat - West Virginia) being a former Ku Klux Klan member, who filibustered against the passage of the civil rights movement to 1964, and you've got wholesale fraud on behalf of the Democrat party. I'm changing my voting registration today. Tomorrow I will be a proud Republican.

“Michael Zak's book proves that despite the rhetoric from the far left, the Republican Party has nothing to be ashamed of in its history regarding civil rights.

In fact, Republicans have a great deal to be proud of, as they were on the forefront of all of America's great civil rights triumphs, with the Democrats only being pulled along by public opinion. Zak shows that this history continues to this day, with Republicans leading the charge for TRUE civil rights (economic opportunity, personal responsibility, and the like).

A definite MUST READ for Republicans, free thinking Democrats, and those who believe the hype that the Republican Party has a poor civil rights record. Women and minorities who read this book, beware! Knowing the truth might send you back home to the Republican Party!”

"Back to Basics for the Republican Party" is a timely manifesto and historical overview of the ideas that define the Republican Party. As we feel inundated these days with media sound bites and empty symbolism in politics, it is easy to lose sight of the underlying organizing principals on which political parties are formed and how the parties differ from each other.

The author agrues that most Republicans misunderstand or are out of touch with the party's founding ideals and therefore are not successful in promoting the party to a wider audience. He takes us through a tour of what began as "The Party of Lincoln", emphasizing individual freedom under the rule of law. The immediate political outcome was the abolition of slavery and its enforcement by war. The tour concludes by demonstrating how those underlying principals have evolved today--namely, an abhorrence of tyranny worldwide and a continuing vigorous effort to decentralize government by bringing it closer to the people.

The author brings to life the personalities, both old and modern, who shaped the Republican Party. Both history book and political essay, "Back to Basics for the Republican Party" weaves together an impressive amount of facts and anecdotes that will make you think about Republican ideals in new and interesting ways. It is a well-written, lively, and lucid contribution that will be of interest to anyone who wants to better understand the Republican Party and its roots. The book is also peppered with witticisms and "zingers" that will make you cheer or shake your head depending on where you stand.”

And here's a very interesting counterpoint from black Republican Patrick D. John:

"I myself am a Black Republican, so I agree with Mr. Zak that the GOP's history on civil rights has not been fairly told.

However, this book makes the same 2 errors that most GOP loyalists make when discussing Blacks and the GOP: 1) they oversimplify the ideology of the early Republicans and abolitionists. For example, notably missing from Mr. Zak's book are the following facts:

that Herbert Hoover (Republican) was the first president to refuse to address the NAACP's convention, that Carter G. Woodson-the Founder of Black History Month-became so disappointed with the GOP that in the late 1920's he publicly stated that Blacks should stop being blindly loyal to the GOP, that soon after Reconstruction the GOP condoned the formation in the South of racially segregated GOP organizations, called the Lily Whites and the Black & Tans;

that beginning in the 1870's Republican candidates lost elections in some Northern states because the Radical Republicans' idea of perfect equality was not embraced by most Whites, not even by most Republicans; that Lincoln was NOT a Radical Republican, he was a moderate who had ALWAYS discussed freeing the slaves ONLY in conjunction with deporting them to another country, for Lincoln openly declared that Blacks were inferior to Whites;

that after the Civil War the GOP was weak nationally-since the founding of the GOP America has had 4 presidents who won by electoral vote but lost the popular vote, and all 4 were Republicans (Harrison, Hayes, Garfield, and Bush);

that not all Republicans or abolitionists believed in racial equality, in fact most did NOT, they believed ONLY in ending slavery, and even on that issue they disagreed on the reasons, some were against slavery for moral reasons, others because they feared slave revolts, others because slavery competed with White labor, others because they wanted the good farmland used for more than just cotton. 2) they leave out much of how/why Blacks left the GOP in the first place:

Mr. Zak's book does lay blame at the feet of Barry Goldwater, but overlooks the fact that Goldwater's victory in the GOP presidential primary obviusly says something about the views of rank and file Republicans in 1964-national civil rights legislation was clearly not a priority for most Republican voters in 1964, else Goldwater could not have won.

Goldwater was just the icing on the cake. Beginning in the 1870's, the GOP began taking the Black vote for granted precisely because the Democrats were such vicious racists. Mr. Zak's book points out how the Democrats were at one point synonymous with the KKK, but he overlooks the obvious political implication for Black voters-if their only 2 choices were between the GOP and the Klan, it was an easy decision.

Blacks voted for the GOP because they feared voting for the Democrats, this led to the GOP taking the Black vote for granted as the GOP moved further away from civil rights issues in order to attract more White voters, feeling confident that in doing so it would not lose Black voters. Today, it's the Democrats who take the Black vote for granted, because most Black voters are afraid of the GOP-the tables have turned.

As a Black Republican who is pro civil rights, I think what we need is a balanced review of history. This book is not balanced. Throughout history minorities have been used by the dominant group like a political footbal, and Blacks in America are no different. I'm working with some other Black Republicans to prepare a balanced view of Blacks and the GOP told from the Black perspective, not the perspective of a party loyalist."

And here American mentions two of the many great black Republicans in history:

"I really enjoyed reading Back to Basics for the Republican Party. It has so much information that must get out to the black community. It is truly remarkable that I did not learn about Thaddeus Stevens or Charles Sumner until I read the book. Both of these American heroes are likely unknown to most Black Americans, and that is a something that I would love to change. I will do my part! I am telling everyone that I know about the book, many of my friends and relatives will get one as a gift."

"I have read all of the reviews that have been uploaded as of 5/23/2008, and the purpose of this filing is to summarize the points that were made AND to provide a perspective that has not yet been uploaded.

I have been carrying-around this book for a year, having learned about its author after I listened to Michael provide a speech to a Republican group in the Philadelphia suburbs. My only complaint is that it does not easily slip into my pockets, because there is so much concentrated information that I would want to reference during conversations.

It contains more than a "string of pearls"; it conveys "history with an attitude" which renders it easier to recall, and observations therein have subsequently been noted in other sources, notably the strong civil rights record of the GOP that indubitably dates-back to Lincoln...threading throughout the "narrative" that Republicans have generated for ~150 years.

COMMENTS:

Bruce Rheinstein's review serves to reinforce the history-lesson provided by Zak, amplifying and amending; it is engaging itself, and essentially the book is shown to pass muster when it emphasizes the contributions of the Radical Republicans.

Aaron Z. Gadouas's review emphasizes that Zak provided a timely manifesto and historical overview of the ideas that define the Republican Party, vital reading for activists and thinkers.

Michael Miller's review focuses upon the need to show the GOP has been anti-racist, and it recognizes the ability of Zak's book to help "recalibrate GOP compasses."

Former Diplomat observes that this book has been cited in a Supreme Court Opinion (as a DC "cult favorite") because it debunks myths and probes "simple truths." It should be noted that it has a treasure-trove of references, reflecting the extensiveness of the research that yielded it.

American laments that too few blacks appreciate the GOP's civil rights legacy. That the turning-point occurred in 1964 is probed, for Zak provides insight as to how their current D-orientation could/should be countered.

Patrick D. John considers it to be a GOP-Infomercial, claiming it oversimplifies and elides over key-points (some of which are discomfiting); the author aspires to compose a text (as a Black Republican) that emphasizes the former ("Black") more than the latter ("Republican"). His review should be consulted for myriad details that weren't included in the book, although some are more arguable as quasi-facts than are others.

George L. Lyon praises Zak for telling us the story that mainstream academia would rather just ignore, namely, that the Radical Republicans were courageous and accomplished.

PJ Hunger "Peej" praises the book because it renews excitement, corrects the course and calls for an engaging vigor not seen for a terribly long time; regarding the GOP, we can dust it off, polish it up, get it working again and show it off. The pivotal observation, however, is that the book conveys essential truths that are as relevant now as they were when first articulated and implemented.

Publius condemns the book because, to him, it represents a self-fulfilling prophesy. Allegedly, it starts with a premise and then creates supportive facts. As examples, it suggests that stereotypes applicable 100 years ago are no longer relevant. He forgets, however, that ideologies that generated those behaviors have evolved over time...but have not dissipated. The reviewer recommends Gould's "GOP" for history, but he fails to dispel the thrust of Zak's presentation of the GOP's strong Civil Rights legacy.

Jonathan Jenkins considers it to be of textbook quality, best perceived as serving as a compendium of the GOP's rich history and as a motivator for budding activists.

Karen B. portrays it as brilliantly concise, an observation recalls that Hemingway--when discussing "The Old Man and The Sea"--invoked this short-book as a model for how the best writers know what to edit OUT as much as what is necessarily included.

Jorge Roque praises the book for reminding him of why he's a proud Republican.

Ann Kotelman writes (simply/eloquently): "My friends, particularly the Democrats, are calling me a born again Republican. The book is inspiring, informative and cemented my affiliation with the party and my belief in Republican ideals." This captures, assuredly, the experience of most who have experienced Zak's efforts.

A Customer emphasizes both how replete the book is with nuggets and how well it conveys fundamental Republican principles that he tries to convey as often as possible.

S. Gershberg considers it a must-read because, by tracing the history of the Republican party, it show us where the political system needs to go at the start of the millennium. It contains so much fascinating detail that the reader must remember to try to remember all the concepts that it conveys so effortlessly.

Cathie Adams claims the book will put wind under your wings. As timely as the book may appear now to be (pre-Presidential Elections), it also has a timeless quality.

Bill Carroll says it all: "Michael Zak's book, "Back to the Basics for the Republican Party," is at once a splendid history lesson of our nation and an illuminating dialogue of our political system. Mr. ZaK begins with the events and the ideas that gave rise to the Republican Party. He goes on to explain how the fundamental tenets of the party enabled the Republicans to save the Union, rid our country of slavery and lay the foundation for the modern American economy.

Mr. Zak then discusses how the GOP strayed from its principles, allowing the Democratic Party to gain the advantage. Finally, the author provides, through his own incisive analysis, the framework by which the Republican Party can regain the moral and political high ground, and lead America to even greater accomplishments. Nonetheless, this book is neither a dry nor a pedantic study. It is a thoughtful, well-written, compelling and entertaining discourse in the realm of politics. Most importantly, "Back to the Basics for the Republican Party" is a clarion call for the GOP to return to its roots. I highly recommend this outstanding book."

I had planned to encompass all the reviews, but the last one was so concisely correct that it cannot be bested by any other reader."

Mediocrity is its own reward.

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Heartwar. Live Free or Die.

Live Free or Die.

"Funny, he doesn't look Jewish"

Live Free or Die.

"We operate only from the facts, Watson".

Live Free or Die.

I'll always touch you, my hero of 9/11.

General George S. Patton.

"There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time. All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood. No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men. By perseverance, study, and eternal desire, any man can become great. If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. Say what you mean and mean what you say.”

General Curtis LeMay.

"Kill enough of them and they stop fighting. If you are going to use military force, then you ought to use overwhelming military force. Use too much and deliberately use too much; you'll save lives, not only your own, but the enemy's too. I had blood upon my hands as I did this, but not because I preferred to bathe in blood. It was because I was part of a primitive world where men still had to kill in order to avoid being killed, or in order to avoid having their beloved Nation stricken and emasculated."

Live Free or Die.

"Oh my God..."

A voice from Imperial Rome.

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear".

Free Quotes.

There are currently 32 CCTV cameras outside the flat where Orwell wrote 1984.

"The single greatest weakness of Western culture is the ability to draw a moral equivalence between anything and everything. It’s really an inability to see anything in due proportion. On everything from Indian policy to education, ideological purity now trumps even the most obvious failures in practice". Mark Steyn.

"Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival." Winston Churchill.

"In a debate at Trinity College, Dublin recently, the aforementioned Omar Brooks said that Mohammed’s message to non-believers was: “I come to slaughter all of you.” He meant it, but come on, you’d have to have a heart of stone not to weep with laughter. Warming to his theme, he said, “We are the Muslims. We drink the blood of the enemy, and we can face them anywhere.” From Mark Steyn. ‘Little Mosque on the Prairie’review.

A left liberal radical is someone who "lives in a fantasy life completely supported by the system they despise". Mark Steyn.

"A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment." Willis Player.

"The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing." Nancy Astor."Leftism is recognizable by three earmarks: It is founded in ignorance, focused on irrelevance, and engaged in wishful thinking." Mark Alger.

BigFurHat at The Peoples Cube com: 'TRUE TRUE TRUE story. I used to post on IMDB and for a long time I had an actual quote from a debater as my sig line. I lifted it from a debate I was having with a [left] liberal about tolerance. The liberal said, AND I QUOTE.. "Just because I have no patience for other people's stupid views doesn't mean I am intolerant." I shit you not.

They derisively mock the notion of "peace through strength" and yet they justify their violence, civil disobedience, domestic terrorism, etc, by saying "our cause is just." Ohhhhhhhh..I see. This is the "intelligentsia" talking.'

"... the very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror."- Karl Marx ("The Victory of the Counter-Revolution in Vienna," Neue Rheinische Zeitung, November 7, 1848)

"I come to the inescapable conclusion that we must now launch the most decisive and merciless battle against the Black Hundreds clergy and crush their resistance with such ferocity that they will not forget it for several decades... The bigger the number of reactionary clergy and reactionary bourgeois we manage to shoot in the process, the better."- V. I. Lenin(Dmitri Volkogonov, Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary [London: HarperCollins, 1996], p227)

"GENOCIDAL ECO-MANIACS: Everyone's favourite comment on the eco-fascists is, or should be, that of President Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic: "What is at risk is not the climate but freedom…I see the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity now in ambitious environmentalism, not in communism. This ideology wants to replace the free and spontaneous evolution of mankind by a sort of central (now global) planning.."

But I wondered if you were also familiar with this wonderful passage from C.S. Lewis:

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

Apart from amending this to "the SUPPOSED good of its victims", I'd say that pretty much covers it, wouldn't you? Ted. London, United Kingdom.

PokerGuy: "In spite of liberal academic claims to the contrary, cause and effect still operate in this universe.No ratings = no listenersNo listeners = no viable contentThe Left defines itself through a short list of mindless talking points and by being “against” various and sundry. These sources are quickly depleted, leaving an inherent intellectual vacuum. There is nothing of substance to sustain interest or dialog, and there are only so many ways to say, “Bush is evil.”

Even die-hard true believers will wander away eventually, and the remainder of the public won’t ever bother because it’s all been said before."

“The great tragedy of Science, the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.” - Thomas H. Huxley.

In “Dreams from My Father” Obama wrote: "I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's [white] race."

"Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging.

They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific assurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."

Malcolm X: "You will never get real freedom and recognition between black and white people in this country without destroying the country, without destroying the present political system, without destroying the present economic system, without rewriting the entire constitution. It will be a complete destruction of everything that America supposedly stands for."

Barry Hussein Barack Sotoero Ubama Obama: "Only Malcolm X’s autobiography seemed to offer something different. His repeated acts of self-creation spoke to me. The blunt poetry of his words. His unadorned insistence on respect. He promised a new and uncompromising order, martial in its discipline."

"VICTORY 101 - The enemy is someone who is willing to die in order to kill you. And while it is true that the enemy always hates us for a reason, it is his reason and not ours. He does not hate us for our faults any more than for our virtues. He sees a different world from ours, and in the world he sees, we are his enemy." Lee Harris.

"Actually, John Wayne was a very good friend of Jimmy Stewart, and was there when Jimmy needed him most. I am most reminded of a story that I believe Stewart himself told during a "Tonight Show" interview in the late seventies:

Stewart's stepson Ronald, a Marine, was killed in June 1969 in Vietnam. Stewart was devastated, and as anyone who knows that time period, very aware of the stigma which the nation had attached to those who served in that war. Shortly after his stepson's death, Stewart and John Wayne stepped out of a building close to the Berkley campus only to find themselves on the outskirts of a massive anti-war demonstration.

In the middle of this unwashed, unruly throng a Viet Cong flag proudly waved. Stewart saw it, and so did John Wayne; then, according to Jimmy Stewart, Wayne did a remarkable thing. He turned to Stewart and told him he'd "be right back".

Wayne then disappeared into the gyrating mass. Stewart related that even though he couldn't see Wayne, he could tell EXACTLY where Wayne was in the crowd from the silence that evidently followed his path - and it lead straight to the Viet Cong flag. A big hand reached up, PULLED down the flag, then disappeared yet again, this time leaving silence spreading behind it - and when John Wayne appeared, he was carrying the balled-up Viet Cong flag in his hands..."

"Duke tried to enlist but was rejected because of an old football injury to his shoulder, his age (34), and his status as a married father of four. He flew to Washington to plead that he be allowed to join the Navy but was turned down.

So he poured himself into the war effort by making inspirational war films-among them 'The Fighting Seabees', 'Back to Bataan' and 'They Were Expendable.' To those back home and others around the world he became a symbol of the determined American fighting man."

“I met all these radical young people of colour - I mean really radical; communists and anarchists. And it was like, this is what I need to be a part of. I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the [Rodney King] verdicts came down on April 29th. By August I was a Communist.” Obama’s new Green black czar Van Jones in leftard paper The East Bay Express on November 02 2005.

Van Jones: “I am willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of the radical ends”.

Van Jones is Obama’s green jobs czar and Special Advisor to the President. Van Jones is a self admitted and proven black Marxist Communist radical and founder of radical Marxist, [and literally Mao loving group] STORM. He is also a signatory to the thruther911 org petition, that says George Bush staged the 9/11 Muslim attack on the World Trade Center. Other signers are self-hating leftard affluent treason freaks Janine Garofolo and Ed asshat Asner.

Senior Whitehouse Advisor Valerie Perrett: "Van Jones. We were so delighted to be able to recruit him into the Whitehouse. We’ve been watching him ah, really for, he’s not that over, for as long as he’s been active out of Oakland and all of the ways that he has, the creative ideas that he has and so now we have captured and we have all of that energy and enthusiasm in the Whitehouse, so..”

Van Jones: “Yeah, complete revolution was on the table for this country and I think this green revolution has to pursue those same steps in stages.”

"When an opponent declares, "I will not come over to your side," I calmly say, "Your child belongs﻿ to us already. . . . What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community." Adolf Hitler 1889 to 1945, German dictator. Speech, 6 Nov. 1933. Quoted in: William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, ch. 8, "Education in the Third Reich" 1959.

"If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam."Sir George Bernard Shaw in 'The Genuine Islam,' Vol. 1, No. 8, 1936.

"I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad.

So far as Ican see, it is the principal cause of the decadence so visible today in the Muslim world and, though less absurd than the polytheism of old, its social and political tendencies are in my opinion more to be feared, and I therefore regard it as a form of decadence rather than a form of progress in relation to paganism itself." Alex DeToqueville 1805 to 1859.

"To me it seems certain that the fatalistic teachings of Muhammad and the utter degradation of women is the outstanding cause for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have kept on developing" General George S. Patton: The War as I Knew it, 1974, p.49.

“As the essential principle of his faith is the subjugation of others by the sword; it is only by force, that his false doctrines can be dispelled, and his power annihilated." President John Quincy Adams.

Black DEMOCRAT Representative Diane Watson: "It was just mentioned to me by our esteemed speaker, “Did anyone say anything about the Cuban health system?”And lemme tell ya, before you say “Oh, it’s a commu–”, you need to go down there and see what Fidel Castro put in place. And I want you to know, now, you can think whatever you want to about Fidel Castro, but he was one of the brightest leaders I have ever met. [APPLAUSE]

And you know, the Cuban revolution that kicked out the wealthy, Che Guevara did that, and then, after they took over, they went out among the population to find someone who could lead this new nation, and they found…well, just leave it there (laughs), an attorney by the name of Fidel Castro…"

Obama’s economic advisor Thomas Friedman: “One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks...But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages. That one party can just impose the politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move a society forward in the 21st century. Our one-party democracy is worse.”

Devil's Advocate: "Have you ever wondered who owns Big Oil? When you think of "Big Oil," who owns the stock? What percentage is owned by the corporate executives?80%? 60%? 50%? No, the answer is 1.5%!! Guess who really owns "Big Oil."41% is owned by pension plans and retirement accounts. So when liberals in the MSM tell you that average Americans do not have an interest in "Big Oil" and stocks, they are flat-out wrong.43% is owned by Mutual funds - small investors owned by you and me."

Van Jones, like the treasonous criminal and parasite Bill Ayers who is the rich spoiled son of a rich man, is an affluent Marxist poseur : “I was accepted to both places, and decided to go to Yale because Yale didn’t have any grades and was smaller than Harvard. I figured, once I enroll I’m guaranteed to graduate, so I can just go and be a radical hell raiser student, and they can’t do anything about it. Which is pretty much what happened.”

Van Jones, May 2009: “I couldn’t be prouder to be laying my sword on the table along with everybody else in the Obama Love Army, and I’m excited about it.”

Politico 2007 interview with Obama’s eugenicist, socialist, collectivist Malthusian science czar John Holdren, who neither understands nor love America: “There has been a strain of what many people call “US exceptionalism” in the United States, the notion that the United States is so big, so important, so powerful, so technologically advanced that it can and should do what it wants. I think this strain is misguided.

Q: Will Americans need to reduce their living standards? Is that politically viable, or will technology [unintelligible] do it?

Holdren: I think ultimately that the rate of growth of material consumption is going to have to come down, and there’s going to have to be a degree of redistribution of how much we consume, in terms of energy and material resources, in order to leave room for people who are poor to become more prosperous.

The great Bastiat’s position: “Socialism, like the ancient political ideology from which it emanates, confuses government with society.”

"The Modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth; but their truth is pitiless. And thus some humanitarians care only for pity; but their pity is often untruthful." - GK Chesterton.

“All 50 states are co-ordinating in this [planned Obamacare push for Sept 11!] as we fight back against our own right wing domestic terrorists who are subverting the American democratic process, whipped into a frenzy by their Fox propaganda network.” Diary entry on Obama leftist radical group site mybarackobama com.

Pro-Obamessiah leftis radical group Organising For America: “..we [should] set aside September 11 to call Senators to pass the government option..and fight back against our own right wing domestic terrorists..the heirs of Bin Laden.”

'What can we expect from someone who gave a speech at a Sharia College?' Yep, stealth jihad..

"Step out of the shadows of your own world, and step forthrightly into a participatory America — an America you have helped build, strengthen, and prosper… I want to see an America that embraces our faith as its own — if we step out of the shadows." First Muslim US Congressman, Keith Ellison.

'..Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, AKA Carlos the Jackal in 2003, from his prison cell, published a book called Revolutionary Islam that urged “all revolutionaries, including those of the left, even atheists,” to accept the leadership of militant jihadists, Osama bin Laden key among them. His reasoning: “Only a coalition of Marxists and Islamists can destroy the United States.”"The spread of Islam is military. There is a tendency to apologize for this and we should not. It is one of the injunctions of the Koran that you must fight for the spreading of Islam."Dr. Ali Issa Othman (Palestinian sociologist), quoted by Charis Waddy inThe Muslim Mind, Longmans, London, 1976.“Islam, as we know, is part of America,”Barack Obama at a White House dinner celebrating the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

‘President Barack Obama highlighted the contributions made by Muslims to American culture and the “dynamism and diversity” of the Islamic community. “Together we have a responsibility to foster engagement grounded in mutual interest and mutual respect.”

“That’s one of my fundamental commitments as president both at home and abroad,” Obama said. “That is central to the new beginning that I’ve sought between the United States and Muslims around the world and that is a commitment that we can renew once again during this holy season.”

The dinner, held in the State Dining Room, brought together members of Congress, Cabinet members, diplomatic officials and community leaders from a spectrum of countries and religions.

Among those invited to the White House on Tuesday night are the ambassadors from most major Muslim countries like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq and Turkey, as well as envoys from nations with significant Muslim populations like Israel, Germany, India, Britain and France. Also on the invitation list is the chief of mission of the Palestinian Liberation Organization.’ Sept 01 2009.

"The Bible is the rock, on which this republic rests." Andrew Jackson.

"Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis: a conviction in the minds of the people, that these liberties are a gift of God; That they are not violated but with his wrath?" Thomas Jefferson.

"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Men and Citizens.

..And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." George Washington, Farewell Address.

Juergen Habermas, a veteran leftist German philosopher stunned his admirers not long ago by proclaiming, "Christianity, and nothing else, is the ultimate foundation of liberty, conscience, human rights, and democracy, the benchmarks of Western civilization. To this day, we have no other options [than Christianity]. We continue to nourish ourselves from this source. Everything else is postmodern chatter."

"Volume 5, Book 58, Number 234 Narrated Aisha: "The Prophet engaged me when I was a girl of six (years). We went to Medina and stayed at the home of Bani-al-Harith bin Khazraj. Then I got ill and my hair fell down. Later on my hair grew (again) and my mother, Um Ruman, came to me while I was playing in a swing with some of my girl friends.

She called me, and I went to her, not knowing what she wanted to do to me. She caught me by the hand and made me stand at the door of the house. I was breathless then, and when my breathing became Alright, she took some water and rubbed my face and head with it. Then she took me into the house.

There in the house I saw some Ansari women who said, "Best wishes and Allah's Blessing and a good luck." Then she entrusted me to them and they prepared me (for the marriage). Unexpectedly Allah's Apostle came to me in the forenoon and my mother handed me over to him, and at that time I was a girl of nine years of age.

Volume 7, Book 62, Number 64: Narrated 'Aisha: that the Prophet married her when she was six years old and he consummated his marriage when she was nine years old, and then she remained with him for nine years (i.e., till his death)."

"Ever since the religion of Islam appeared in the world, the espousers of it...have been as wolves and tigers to all other nations, rending and tearing all that fell into their merciless paws, and grinding them with their iron teeth; that numberless cities are raised from the foundation, and only their name remaining; that many countries, which were once as the garden of God, are now a desolate wilderness; and that so many once numerous and powerful nations are vanished from the earth! Such was, and is at this day, the rage, the fury, the revenge, of these destroyers of human kind." John Wesley. The Doctrine of Original Sin, Works, 1841, IX 205

‘In a quiet event [it would be..] during an otherwise well-publicized visit to Los Angeles this week, U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. reached out to local Muslim American youths, [THEY never have to reach out to us do they and they never do..]

‘..calling on them to work with the government to fight violent extremism,’ [meaning gee, not Islam but some mysterious people who have misunderstood Mohammad the pedophile mass murdering rapist's message of "I triumph through terror"] ‘..and pledging that the Justice Department would reinvigorate enforcement of civil rights and work to advance religious freedom.’

[Ah, so much codespeak. Religious freedom means an Islamic free and how do we deal with Muslims relentlessly wanting to murder us while denying it’s ALL ABOUT the fraud of PC multiculticsm and golly, the filth of ISLAM itself.]

"For American Muslims specifically, these are times that pose serious civil rights and civil liberties challenges," Holder told the crowd, according to a copy of prepared remarks.’ [Gee, and I thought Muslims murdered 3,000 people in New York and were waging asymmetrical war against Israel and the West etc, now under relentless stealth Jihad.. Apparently Muslims are you know, suffering. Can't sleeper cell at night...It must be the screams of beheading vids eminating from the loungeroom..]

‘Earlier this year, a coalition of the nation's largest Muslim organizations’ [read as Saudi, Syrian, Iranian and Lybian funded jihadist front groups] ‘..issued a statement demanding that the Obama administration address FBI actions, including what they described as the "infiltration of mosques," the use of "agent provocateurs to trap unsuspecting Muslim youth" and the "deliberate vilification" of one of the nation's largest Muslim civil rights organizations.’

[They mean CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood launched and Saudi funded pro-terrorist, convicted and unindicted co-conspirator fraud group.]‘The meeting, which was closed to the media,’ [it makes no difference if it was open to the media] ‘.. was held Thursday evening at the Omar Ibn Al Khattab Foundation, a mosque and community center near USC, said Dafer Dakhil, the foundation's director.

Holder "recognized that the department has to be sensitive to religion," Mowjood said.'

President George W. Bush 7 October 2005:

“Please be seated. Thank you. Welcome to the White House.

This is the fifth year in a row that it's been my honor to host an Iftaar in the State Dining Room. Our distinguished guests represent the millions of Muslims that we're proud to call Americans, and many Islamic nations are represented here that America is proud to call friend.

We welcome the representatives from many countries with large Muslim populations. I want to thank you all for coming to celebrate an honored tradition of the Muslim faith, and wish you a, "Ramadan Mubarak." I want to thank those in my administration who have joined us. I want to thank the Imam for joining us today, and thank you for leading us in prayer after these short remarks.

I want to thank all the ambassadors from the Organization of the Islamic Conference [Countries] . I welcome other members of the Diplomatic Corps. And I want to thank the Muslim -- American Muslim leaders who are with us today. Thanks for taking time out to celebrate this important dinner. Ramadan is the holiest time of the Muslim year.

According to Islamic teaching, this month commemorates the revelation of God's word to the Prophet Muhammad in the form of the Koran. For more than a billion Muslims, Ramadan is a time of heartfelt prayer and togetherness. It is a time of fasting and personal sacrifice. It's a time to give thanks for God's blessings through works of charity.

One Muslim leader said: "It's a national and Islamic obligation to assist one's neighbors when they are in need." The American people saw that spirit as we recovered from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The world sees that spirit, that compassion of Islam, through the countless acts of kindness following the recent earthquake in southeast -- in South Asia.

America is fortunate to count such good-hearted men and women among our fellow citizens. We have great respect for the commitment that all Muslims make to faith, family, and education. And Americans of many backgrounds seek to learn more about the rich tradition of Islam.

To promote greater understanding between our cultures, I have encouraged American families to travel abroad, to visit with Muslim families. And I have encouraged American families to host exchange students from the Muslim world. I have asked young Americans to study the language and customs of the broader Middle East. And for the first time in our nation's history, we have added a Koran to the White House Library.”

[Excellent.. Sadly George has objectively learnt and understood nothing beyond how to swallow and regurgitate whole the Islamic stealth jihad of al taquiyaa, kithman and dawa..]

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) was formed, Sept. 11, 1961 in Morges, Switzerland by Sir Julian Huxley. Julian Huxley, was also the British Eugenics Society president from 1954-1962.

"[E]ven though it is quite true that any radical eugenic policy will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible, it will be important for UNESCO to see that the eugenic problem is examined with the greatest care, and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake so that much that now is unthinkable may at least become thinkable." Sir Julian Huxley, first director general of UNESCO (1946-1948).

The radical eugenics policy's that Huxley hoped would become thinkable were -Nazi abuses, such as enforced racial hygiene, human experimentation, and the extermination of “undesired” population groups.'

Prince Bernhard, of the Netherlands, served as the first president of the fund from 1962-1976.. He not only founded the Bilderberg group.. Bernhard is also a former Nazi SS officer.

HRH Duke of Edinburgh (Prince Philip) was also a president of the WWF from 1981-1996. He stated more than once that: "In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation." [His amazingly stupid son, Prince Charles, is a radical environmentalist and very much THE elite, dimwitted PC dhimmi, multiculti suicide fan of Islam and all its monstrous works.]

Prince Bernard was forced to resign in late 1976 as a result of the Lockheed Scandal..that rocked the Royal Family in 1976 when it was revealed that Prince Bernhard had accepted a US$1.1 million bribe from U.S. aircraft manufacturer Lockheed Corporation to influence the Dutch government’s purchase of fighter aircraft. Later it was also revealed:

In 1988, Prince Bernhard and Princess Juliana sold two paintings from their personal collection to raise money for the World Wildlife Fund. The paintings sold for GBP700 000, which was deposited in a Swiss WWF bank account.

In 1989, however, Charles de Haes, director-general of the WWF, transferred GBP500 000 back to Bernhard, for what De Haes called a private project. In 1991, newspapers reported what this private project was: Prince Bernhard had hired mercenaries – mostly British – to fight against poachers in nature reserves.

He was succeeded in 1976 by John Loudon till 1981. Loudon was the former CEO of Royal Dutch Shell, and chairman of Shell Oil Co.'

"Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit." P J O'Rourke.

"There is not one problem that hasn't been acerbated by more people and improved by less." David Attenborough the idiot professional Grandfather figure and smiley faced ecofascist brother of Sir Richard Attenborough.

Ecofascist John Porritt sees people as a mathematical problem and speaks of the "cold calculus of Global Warming", as a great way to simply get rid of lots of human beings.

Meanwhile back at the Whitehouse, Obama's Science and Technology czar John Holdren writes the following in his book: “The neo-Malthusian view proposes population limitation and redistribution of wealth..On these points we find ourselves firmly in the neo-Malthusian camp..

Moreover, if the United States refuses to take proper measures, they authorise the UN to take compelling force..

Indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution..One way to carry out this disapproval might be to insist that all illegitimate babies be put up for adoption ..

Involuntary fertility control..A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men..

Why should the law not be able to prevent a person from having more than two children?

“Toward a Planetary Regime.. agencies, combined with UNEP and the United Nations population agencies, might eventually be developed into a Planetary Regime—sort of an international superagency for population, resources, and environment.

..a comprehensive Planetary Regime could control the development, administration, conservation, and distribution of all natural resources, renewable or non-renewable.. the Regime could have the power to control pollution not only in the atmosphere and oceans, but also in such freshwater bodies as rivers and lakes that cross international boundaries or that discharge into the oceans..

..a logical central agency for regulating all international trade, perhaps including assistance from DCs to LDCs, and including all food on the international market. The Planetary Regime might be given responsibility for determining the optimum population for the world and for each region and for arbitrating various countries' shares within their regional limits.

Control of population size might remain the responsibility of each government, but the Regime would have some power to enforce the agreed limits.

If this could be accomplished, security might be provided by an armed international organization, a global analogue of a police force.” Obama’s new Science and Technology Policy Director John Holdren writing in his book.

“We have so much room for improvement,” [Nancy] Pelosi said. “Every aspect of our lives must be subject to an inventory..of how we are taking responsibility.” Associated Press 28 05 2009.

JFK's father Joe Kennedy was worth 500 million dollars in 1969. He got that money and the power that came with it to get his spoiled profoundly corrupt son into the Presidency, through often front group investments, tax avoidance, illegal liquor and gambling, and via massive bribery and payoffs, intimidation, corruption, crime and organised crime, treason and nepotism on a vast scale, including FDR and his son, thousands of corrupt officials, police, sheriffs, journalists and so on ad nauseum.

Funny how much Democrat happy trails virtually always go back to places like uber corrupt Chicago, and rotten people like Daley and his ilk ad nauseum, endless elite carpetbaggers, life long radicals, dirtbag wacko celebrities and so, so many more. It's a riot..

Obama continues this Democratic Party tradition of fraudulent misrepresentation of himself without serious criticism via a fawning press, while appointing his croney's and using his well learned radical methods, especially those of Saul Alinky's Rules For Radicals.

As FDR appointed his son James [a close Joe pal] to positions, so did JFK appoint his vicious, corrupt and temper driven brother Bobby to Attorney General with out complaint.

Joe bought with millions of dollars in bribes, the utterly fake, depraved and reckless JFK's Democratic nomination for President.

"German Foreign Ministry documents published aftr WWll, show that [Joe] Kennedy, without State Department approval, repeatedly sought a personal meeting with Hitler on the eve of the Nazi Blitzkrieg, "to bring about a better understanding between the United States and Germany."

On Joe Kennedy's attitudes, Herbert Von Dirksen, the German Ambassador reported to Berlin that "it was not so much the fact that we wanted to get rid of the Jews that was so harmful to us, but rather the loud clamour with which we accompanied this purpose. He [Joe Kennedy] understood our Jewish policy completely."

Kennedy tried hard to make a massive gold loan bribe to Hitler. No really. Kennedy made illegal copies of FDR and Churchill's talks, and threatened FDR with exposing these cables. No really.

While serving as wartime American Ambassador in London, "diplomats serving on the American Desk in the British Foreign Office, grew to fear and hate Kennedy." They compiled a dossier called the "Kennediana" file. Sir Robert Vansittart, undersecratary of the Foreign Office wrote in 1940: "Mr Kennedy is a very foul specimen of a double-crosser and defeatist. He thinks of nothing but his own pocket. I hope that this war will see the elimination of his type."

"Individual Jews are alright...but as a race they stink". Joe Kennedy.

Kennedy had exclusive rights to import and export alchohol into Britain. He often commandeered valuable shipping space and used his diplomatic transport services to move cash and evidence etc. READ The Dark Side Of Camelot by Seymour M. Hersh. No really.

David Rockefeller: "We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the light of publicity during those years.

But now the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supra-national sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries."

[David] Rockefeller writes on page 405 of his memoirs: "Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that is the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."

"The system of banking [is] a blot left in all our Constitutions,which, if not covered, will end in their destruction...I sincerely believe that banking institutions are more dangerousthan standing armies; and that the principle of spending money tobe paid by posterity... is but swindling futurity on a large scale."Thomas Jefferson.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” Henry Ford.

'War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.' John Stuart Mill.

“And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” Revelation 13:16.

"Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had". Michael Crichton.

“We have just four months. Four months to secure the future of our planet. The world is looking to Korea for leadership. [CN: Hey, it always does!]

I'm glad that the Chairman of the forum and many other speakers have used my campaign slogan “Seal the Deal” in Copenhagen. I won't charge them loyalty." Ban Ki Moon the baboon and Chief UN Global Warming mega $cam gravy train conformist asshat and dumbass simpleton, August 11 2009.

"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions." Albert Einstein.

"The only thing you need to know about Communism and Socialism, was that you couldn't get a good Chinese takeaway in China and a good Cuban cigar in Cuba".P.J O'Rourke.

"Communism and Socialism are based entirely on murder, lies, envy, conformity, spite, immorality, an enforced mediocrity in all things, and an unlimited depravity and madness. Much like the mainstream media, Islam and pop music". Colonel Neville.

"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time". Edith Wharton.

"Every hero becomes a bore at last". Ralph Waldo Emerson.

"What does a community organizer do? What he does not do is organize a community. What he organizes are the resentments and paranoia within a community, directing those feelings against other communities, from whom either benefits or revenge are to be gotten, using whatever rhetoric or tactics will accomplish that purpose.

To think that someone who has spent years promoting grievance and polarization was going to bring us all together as president is a triumph of wishful thinking over reality." Thomas Sowell.

"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." Thomas Paine.

"Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it." Maimonides.

William. F. Buckley Jr. said that he would "rather be governed by the first 500 names in the Boston telephone directory than by the faculty at Harvard."

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting their labours under the pretence of taking care of them." Thomas Jefferson.

"In determining reality, Sherlock Holmes maxim, was that "when you have excluded the impossible, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth". As a matter of fiction, accepting the improbable as an equivalent of "guesstimate" may be interesting reading, but it cannot be any foundation for a future world better than shifting sand.

[The] point in exposing what are described as "cynical attempts" by competing agencies and charities to boost donations and raise profiles, is that what is possible becomes obscured by the exaggeration". [From an old newspaper clipping.]

"Do you know who first defined the concept of an enemy combatant? It was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Socialist Democrat, 1944. He used that designation, his justice department did, to try Nazis who were dropped off on Long Island by German submarines. He tried them not as American citizens, not in courts of law, but as enemy combatants. They were tried and found guilty and shot.

Are you aware of that Democrat? (To Caller) The problem is you are not educated, the problem is the media’s filled with sycophants who don’t even now their own history. That’s why we’re in trouble. That’s why we have this charlatan as President and idiots like you calling the show, talking about constitutional rights for Osama Bin Laden." Michael Savage to a liberal caller.

"The sword of Muhammad and the Quran are the most fatal enemies of civilization, liberty, and the truth which the world has yet known." The eminent orientalist Sir William Muir [1819-1905].

[The Ayatollah Khomeini is considered by millions of Muslims worldwide as a major Islamic spiritual guide and authority.] "Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those [who say this] are witless. Islam says: Kill all the unbelievers just as they would kill you all!

Does this mean that Muslims should sit back until they are devoured by [the unbelievers]? Islam says: Kill them, put them to the sword and scatter [their armies]...

Islam says: Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the shadow of the sword! People cannot be made obedient except with the sword! The sword is the key to Paradise, which can be opened only for the Holy Warriors!

There are hundreds of other [Qur’anic] psalms and Hadiths [sayings of the Prophet] urging Muslims to value war and to fight.

Does all this mean that Islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war? I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.” Ayatollah Khomeini.

"Freedom of expression must be limited," Venezuela's top prosecutor under Chavez General Luisa Ortega.

"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it."

“There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” Ronald Reagan 1964 Republican Convention.

Blog comment: “The author of the piece took Lieberman to task for favouring an increase in military spending [for Israel.] Sure. Because if Jews have learnt anything, it is that it's best to be unarmed and defenseless. That always works out so well for them.”

“When all government...in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided...” Thomas Jefferson

"Hope is an excuse for doing nothing." Rush Limbaugh.

"For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security." Thomas Jefferson.

RULE 3: ''Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.'' Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. (This happens all the time. Watch how many organizations under attack are blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address.)

RULE 6: ''A good tactic is one your people enjoy.'' They'll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They're doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones.

RULE 8: ''Keep the pressure on. Never let up.'' Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new. (Attack, attack, attack from all sides, never giving the reeling organization a chance to rest, regroup, recover and re-strategize.)"

Colonel Neville via Sinatra's Nancy with the smiling face, does..

Nancy [Pelosi], with the stupid face.

If I just see her each day, a pisserGee, what a shrill that plastic kisserBelieve me, she’s a head caseOh Nancy, with the stupid' face

She takes the dimmer and she makes it dummerAnd dummer could take a few lessons from herPicture a simpletons faceThat's Nancy with the stupid face

Did you ever hear Obama’s balls ringing?Well, she'll give you the very same lowWhen she speaks you would think it was shittingJust hear her say jello

I swear to goodness, you can't believe herSorry for us, she has no desisterNo moron could replaceNancy, with the stupid face.'

Obamacare is made of people!

.“Principles for Allocation of Scarce Medical Interventions,” published on January 31, 2009. .beginning at page 6 of the embed (page 428 in the original) at which Dr. Emanuel sets forth the principles of “The Complete Lives System.”

While Emanuel does not use the term “death panel,” Palin put that term in quotation marks to signify the concept of medical decisions based on the perceived societal worth of an individual, not literally a “death panel.” And in so doing, Palin was true to Dr. Emanuel’s concept of a system whichconsiders prognosis, since its aim is to achieve complete lives.

A young person with a poor prognosis has had a few life-years but lacks the potential to live a complete life. Considering prognosis forestalls the concern the disproportionately large amounts of resources will be directed to young people with poor prognoses.

When the worst-off can benefit only slightly while better-off people could benefit greatly, allocating to the better-off is often justifiable….When implemented, the complete lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated.."

"The Western mind-set—that if we respect them, they’re going to respect us, that if we indulge and appease and condone and so on, the problem will go away—is delusional. The problem is not going to go away. Confront it, or it’s only going to get bigger." Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Islam and Muslims.

"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. - Bertrand Russell.

For example, a recent poll found that 36 per cent of Muslims between the ages of 16 and 24 believe that those who convert to another religion should be punished by death. That's not 36 per cent of young Muslims in Waziristan or Yemen or Sudan, but 36 per cent in the United Kingdom.

Forty per cent of British Muslims would like to live under sharia, in Britain. Twenty per cent have sympathy for the July 7 Tube bombers. And, given that Islam is the principal source of population growth in every city down the spine of England from Manchester to Sheffield to Birmingham to London, these statistics are not without significance for Britain's future. Can we talk about it?" Mark Steyn.

"Civilizations die from suicide, not murder." Arnold Toynbee.

'Two years ago, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, musing on Islamic radicalism in her own country, said that people need occasionally to "show their opposition to Islam... It is a challenge we have to take seriously. We have let this issue float about for too long because we are tolerant and very lazy. And when we are tolerant, we must know whether it is because of convenience or conviction."

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe. - Laurence J. PeterThe greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. - Walter Bagehot

“The left always equates equal opportunity with the need for equality of outcome”. Comment by Dr John on Hotair dot com.

“If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory..”Winston Churchill.

"There are two moral questions which altruism lumps together into one “package-deal”: (1) What are values? (2) Who should be the beneficiary of values? Altruism substitutes the second for the first; it evades the task of defining a code of moral values, thus leaving man, in fact, without moral guidance.Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one’s own benefit is evil.

Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value—and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes.

One of the entries under “property rights”..The right to agree with others is not a problem in any society; it is the right to disagree that is crucial. It is the institution of private property that protects and implements the right to disagree—and thus keeps the road open to man’s most valuable attribute (valuable personally, socially, and objectively): the creative mind." Ayn Rand, ‘Atlas Shrugged’.

Carl Sagan in his book “The Demon-haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”. “In 1993, the supreme religious authority of Saudi Arabia, Sheik Abdel-Aziz ibn Baaz, issued a edict, or fatwah, declaring that the world is flat. Anyone of the round persuasion does not believe in God and should be punished.''

Mark Steyn on LIVE FREE OR DIE!

"Two hundred years ago — July 31, 1809 — General Stark wrote the words that are now New Hampshire's state motto.

As an immigrant to the Granite State, I was born in a jurisdiction whose license plates bear the stirring exhortation "Yours to discover," so I certainly appreciate getting to drive around with John Stark's battle cry on my rig. I reflected a little on the motto in this speech at Hillsdale College. Its lesson for our time is this:

It's a bald statement of the reality of our lives in the prosperous West. You can live as free men, but, if you choose not to, your society will die."